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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: ffunso@tiscali.it
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:48:56 -0800
Subject: private

Dear,
I hereby write to inform you of my Business Proposal to you and I understand
that this mail will come to you as a surprise.However,I want
you to have in your mind that my words in this mail to you is my bond and
I am hoping you go through it carefully.I will start by introducing
myself to you.
I am Eng.Funso Kupolokun, I head the tenders board in charge of Oil/Gas
liftting Payments Approvals with Nigerian Liquified Gas (NLG).my
search for a reputable person to me handle a very confidential transaction
that involves the transfer of a fixed sum of money
to a foreign account. There were series of in house unaccounted crude oil
supplied through Guaius Obaseki the former NNPC Group
managing director termed NNPC/SHELL JOINT VENTURE.
The original supply was meant for a buyer Mr Jim Pallock(president) from
Hong Kong but it has been diverted(Bunkery) through the help of
in house NNPC officials headed by Guaius Obaseki and
payment has been made in full without any knowledge of the current Group
Managing director. We are now soliciting for assistance to
receive this money as we need a foriegn partner to front for us. Note that
the payment had been made into a secret escrow account with
UTILITY TRUST
SECURITY COMPANY.in London I and my colleagues are willing to transfer the
total amount of
US$45.5M to your custody for subsequent disbursement, since we as civil
servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Nigeria
Civil Service Laws) from operating foreign accounts in our names. Needless
to say, the trust repose on you at this juncture is enormous
pending when
we meet you. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20% of the transferred
sum, (internal and external) between the parties in the
course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit
the balance to our secret local accounts that would be given to you.
That as a foreign partner, you will follow our instructions. Furthermore,
modalities have been worked out within the highest levels of the
Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of
Nigeria officials for the immediate transfer of the funds within 7 working
days. Our assurance is that your role is risk free, as your line of
business does not matter in this regard.
Forward all correspondence to my private mail box: ffunso@hotmail.com Tel:234-8055359541
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Eng.Funso Kupolokun.

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